Bawumia’s Apology: Ghanaians Are Not Fooled — Never Again!

Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia’s recent apology for the catastrophic failures of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government is being seen for exactly what it is — a last-minute, desperate, face-saving gimmick to salvage his battered political image and ambitions. But Ghanaians have grown wiser. No amount of staged apologies can erase the suffering, betrayal, and hardship his leadership helped impose on an entire nation.

For eight long, harrowing years, Bawumia was not a spectator. He was the Head of the Economic Management Team — the so-called “economic whiz kid” who turned out to be the architect of Ghana’s worst economic disaster in the Fourth Republic. He supervised reckless borrowing that ballooned Ghana’s debt to unprecedented levels, pushing the country into bankruptcy. He championed tax policies that strangled businesses and impoverished citizens. He looked on — and in many cases, defended — as the government unleashed corruption on an unimaginable scale, from the PDS scandal to the collapse of indigenous banks, to the siphoning of COVID-19 funds meant for desperate citizens.

Today, he tells Ghanaians it was all “mistakes.” No, Dr. Bawumia, these were not mistakes. These were calculated betrayals. Deliberate actions fuelled by greed, incompetence, arrogance, and disdain for the suffering of the people.

Ghanaians will not forget how pensions were wiped out through the disastrous Domestic Debt Exchange Programme. They will not forget how families struggled to survive amid skyrocketing inflation, mass unemployment, and a collapsing healthcare and education system — all while government officials lived lavishly, buying properties abroad and flying private jets on taxpayers’ sweat.

An apology without accountability is hollow. It is a slap in the face of every Ghanaian who lost a job, a business, a home, or a loved one because of the sheer mismanagement and corruption of the NPP administration. Ghanaians demand more than hollow words. They demand full restitution. They demand the prosecution of all who looted and raped the state.

Let’s not forget the deeper historical context. From its birth as the United Party (UP) to its current incarnation as the NPP, this political tradition has consistently stood in the way of Ghana’s true progress — promoting elitism, division, economic injustice, and mass suffering. They are not saviours. They are saboteurs dressed in suits and slogans.

Bawumia and his NPP cohorts cannot and will not be given another opportunity to wreck Ghana’s future. Ghanaians are wide awake now. The same way they decisively rejected them at the polls, they must ensure they are kept far, far away from the levers of power for good.

The message is simple and loud:
Apologies are not enough.
We demand restitution.
We demand justice.
We demand a new era of honest, competent leadership!

Ghana will rise again — but not with the very architects of its collapse at the helm.

Never again!